Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Passes the Hale Bill to
Provide for an Increase of the
Naval Establishment.
The House Sustains the Presidents Veto of
the Seed Appropriation Bin-The
Diplomatic Appropriation Bill,
THE SENATE.

presented 8 resolution of the Massa-
chussetts Legislature in favor of coast
defenses and the building of navy that
wiz command the confidence of the
American people and the respect of other
nations
Senator Wilson OF Iowa presented
petitions OF citizens of Iowa in favor a
board of international arbitration.
Bills were reported from committees
and placed on the calendar as follows
To eXtirpate pleuro-pneumonia and foot
and mouth diseases and to facilitate the
expectation Of cattle: to enable Indian
tribes to bring suit in the tribunal of the
United States court in certain cases: to
authorize the Choctsw, Chickesaw,
Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians to
lease lands for mining purposes.
The Senate resumed consideration of
the Hale bill to provide for an increase Of
the naval establishment
The amendment offered yesterday by
Senator Butler requiring vessels to be
for sea service was Withdrawn. The bill
then passed-yeas, 4G; NAYS, /.
The nays were: Coke, Jones of Arkan-
sss, Plumb, Vance, Van Wyck, Vest and
voorhees,.
The bill provides for the construction
of heaYilY armOred vessels for coast de-
tense and also for gunbCats and torpedo
boats, and anpropriates SIS, 200 to be
syailable during five years from March (,
1887.
The Serate then proceeded to the con-
sideration Of House bills on the calendar,
to which there were no objections. The
following passed: For an additional
associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Territ ry of New Mexico; fer delivery
10 the rightful owners the contents of
certain boxes deposited in the Treasury
Department by the Secretary of War;
granting right of way to the Prescott and
Arizona Central Railway Company across
Whipple barracks reservation in Arizona.
~ The Senste then resumed ccnSidera-
ton Of the Eds Tehuantepec Ship Rail
way bill, and Senator Vest offered new
substitute for the bill. 1t says that the
government Of Mexico has granted to
CADt8InEads g concession for the construc-
ton and operation of a ship railway
across the lSthmuS Of TehuGntepeC, and
has authorized him and his associates to
OBTAIN charter either in Mexico or
somewhere else. 1t therefore incorpor-
steS James B Eads and some eighty
other persons, named as Il body under
the name and title of the At
lantic and Pacific Ship hallway
Company The stock is not to
exceed 800 100000, and when 10 per
cent. of the stock is subscribed for, and
. per cent thereof paid in cash, q meet
ing of the stockholders is to be held in
Washington or New York for the cleo
ton of directors. If $lO,O00.OOO of
stock is not subscribed for and 0 per
cent. cash paid thereon within two years,
the charter is to ,xpire by limitation.
Senator Van Wyck offered to this sub
stitute the amendment which he had
offered to the original bill, that no Ger
tiriCate of stock shall be issued until
it shall have been fully psld for in money
at par vsiue, and that no bonds in excess
{ the amount of capital actually paid in
snail be issued or disposed of at less than
their par value. He oke of the neces-
sitV for the adoption Of such safeguards,
and referred to the history of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company and of the
Credit Mobelier with which respectable
men were connected, Massachusetts, men,
100, as there were connected with the
TehUantepee measure.
Vt this point az acrimonious colloquy
occurred between Senators Dawes and
Van Wyck concerning the connection of
Massachusetts men with the Union Pacific
Railroad Company at its conception, and
Win the Credit Mobilier.
At the conclusion of this passage at
arms, and on motion of Senator HOar, the
amendment offered by Senator Van Wyck
was amended by the provision that 10 per
cent. of the stock to re subscribed
for, and paid before TIE issue of Certih-
Gates, shall not be assigna5le until the
whole of il shall be authorized or issued,
and until the paid in capital shall amount
TO So, 900, 900 instead Of Sl0,000,000. As
thus amended Senator Van Wyck's
amendment was agreed to.
Senator Morrill, offered an anne ,ment
restricting the rate of interest on Che
bonds to per cent. and providing they
shall not be sold at less than 30 per cent.
Of their par value.
Senator Sherman argued against Sen
ator Morrill's amendment.
Senator Morrill's amendment was re-
iected-yeas, 10; nays, ~.
The substitute offered by Senator Vest
to-day, as amended by Senator Van
Wyck, was agreed to without division,
and the bill as amended was pGssed-yess,
tG; nays, !. The nays We're: Edmunds,
Jones, Morrill,, Platt, Van Wyck and Will
son of Iowa,
The Senate then on motion Of Senator
Edmuuds, took up the bill to inaugurate
the Maritime Company of Nicaragua. 1t
went over till to- morrow as unfinished
- business, and the Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Speaker
laid before the House q message from the
President returning without his approval
the oil approprlating $4,000 for the spe-
cial distribution Of seed to the drouth-
stricken counties of Texas.
Mr.. Lanham of Texas moved that the
bill and accompanying message be re-
ferred to the committee on agriculture.
Inasmuch, he said, as he had introduced
the bill he was not willing to let the &C.
casion pass without saying some words
in vindicatlon of the action Of Congress
in passing the measure. In doing so 10
followed p.ecedents established in 1875
and in 1888, when bills of q similar char
acter were passed by Congress
and became laws. If the or
ssnizltion of the department Of
agriculture was constitutional, if seeds
could be distributed for the declared OBJ
iect Of promoting agriculture, if the agri-